![]() Odd question but how do you go about ripping assets from the flashes? i wanna try so i can get panels for edits without losing quality buuut im not entirely sure how. I don’t know whether I’ll read the whole thing (the video I found being on the 1000th page is a little worrying, as it looks like a plot just getting going) but at least I’m sure I didn’t just hallucinate the whole thing. Found it! Apparently it’s called Vast Error | Deconreconstruction and what I watched was a video for the 1000th page entitled Ellsee: Enter. I’m just not sure where to look, anymore. I certainly didn’t have the time to invest in catching up if they’d managed to make the thing regularly, you know?īut now my Fear of Missing Out is fully activated and I’m weirdly obsessed with finding this vanished Homestuck-adjacent property. Part of the reason my memory’s so fuzzy on this is that at the time I wasn’t really interested. I went a full year back in my Youtube History with no luck, but it wouldn’t surprise me if I found out this was from like 3 years ago. Maybe I’m not even remembering correctly and it was not videos at all. Maybe it was a student project and the person making it took it down. Maybe this high-quality work was a fan work and Viz decided that against everything Homestuck stands for they just don’t like fan works. Viz Media bought Homestuck, a little while ago. I’m almost positive it included HS trolls, it had a heavy green-and-black aesthetic, it was substantially higher-quality animation than the bits and bobs we get in H^2, and I cannot find it again. I remember seeing something high-quality - I think it was Youtube videos - and thinking, “Huh. Not Hiveswap, not H^2, but rather some unannounced video series that, to hear her tell it, “never materialized.” There’s a spot in the video - an offhand comment - about some side project to make Homestuck-adjacent stuff. Now, a break due to trying to interact with Homestuck from outside its proper time is quite on-brand, and that’s cute and all, but none of this is what I came here to discuss. Notably, Flash is dead, so experiencing Homestuck in its original form is literally impossible and while some dedicated archivists have done what they could the official Homestuck page has several Flash-related spots where it just plain breaks. In small chunks over the last week I watched Sarah Z’s amusingly-accurately-titled “A Brief History of Homestuck” which is, of course, multiple hours long.Īround the end she compares Homestuck to an artist’s intricate beach art and talks about how it seemed like it would last forever but has largely dissolved (and current work by official and semi-official sources to keep it going is compared to trying to make the sand art while the tide’s in that its moment has passed). ![]() I’d say that the next mainstream cartoon that releases a video in this style will probably be a cultural phenomenon the way Steven Universe was right after Stronger Than You came out. Does it require the thousand pages of buildup to be that impactful? Absolutely not. Is crafting one of these things difficult? Yes. Cascade and Ellsee: Enter, respectively, got me to read a thousand plus pages each to see what had led to their events. Not only can it condense an enormous amount of action into just a few minutes, but it does so in a way that feels epic and poetic, and also is an absolutely incredible method of what the marketers would call Onboarding - that is, getting people who have never seen the product invested in the product. One of the things that Vast Error proved with Ellsee: Enter was that the style of storytelling used in Homestuck’s better animations wasn’t a fluke. I’m fairly certain that even its defenders don’t attempt to claim it isn’t a mess, preferring to call it a beautiful mess, or to claim the mess is the point, or to say the less messy segments make up for the rest. It arguably contains great stories but only by virtue of its sheer scale being so huge that it is arguably a medium more than a tale in its own right. Homestuck was not actually great storytelling.
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